jashkenas/coffee-script — Issue #1907: Indentation and line continuation à la Haskell
Author: Phlogistique
Created: 2011-12-02 18:20:46+00:00
State: open

This must have been discussed before, but I can't find where.

Why is it not possible to break a line at an arbitrary point where you would put whitespace?

For example, in Haskell, this is allowed:

```haskell
main = do
putStrLn
"Hello, world"
```

On the other hand, in CoffeeScript, this is not allowed:
```coffee
console.log
"Hello, world!"
```